1bsetroot(1)                 General Commands Manual                bsetroot(1)
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NAME

6       bsetroot - blackbox utility to change root window appearance
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SYNOPSIS

9       bsetroot -help
10       bsetroot [ -display display ] -solid color
11       bsetroot [ -display display ] -mod x y -fg color -bg color
12       bsetroot [ -display display ] -gradient texture -from color -to color
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DESCRIPTION

15       Bsetroot  is a utility that can control the appearance of the root win‐
16       dow in three ways: Either give it a solid color, or write a  two  color
17       modula  pattern  to it, or render a gradient texture, based on two dif‐
18       ferent colors.
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20       Bsetroot resembles xsetroot(1) in this functionality  but  it  supports
21       multiple  screen displays, and gradient textures the same way as Black‐
22       box does.  It doesn't handle cursors etc.   Bsetroot  is  part  of  the
23       Blackbox package.
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OPTIONS

26       Bsetroot  operates  in  three  ways, you must choose one of the first 3
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29       -solid color
30              Sets the root window to specified color.
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32       -mod x y
33              Creates a modula pattern. You must specify -bg and -fg colors.
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36              Renders the specified texture string to the  root  window.   For
37              possible texture strings, please refer to blackbox(1).  You must
38              also specify both a -from and a -to color.
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40       -display display
41              Tells Bsetroot to connect to the specified display.
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43       -bg, -background color
44              Background color.  Needed for -mod patterns.
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46       -fg, -foreground color
47              Foreground color.  Needed for -mod patterns.
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49       -from color
50              Start color for rendering textures.  Needed for -gradient opera‐
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57       -help  Prints version info and short help text.
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AUTHOR

60       Bsetroot is written and maintained by Brad  Hughes  (blackbox@alug.org)
61       and Jeff Raven (jraven@psu.edu).
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SEE ALSO

64       blackbox(1)
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680.60.3                          June 16th, 2000                    bsetroot(1)